USN-3900-1: GD vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 14.04

Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that GD incorrectly handled memory when processing certain images. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted image file to cause GD to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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